4.8 • 646 Ratings
🗓️ 5 October 2014
⏱️ 16 minutes
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Dave wants to enjoy his vacation in the Canary Islands, so Alonso interviews his brother Fernando Duralde, MD, about his family's shared love of movies, the old-Hollywood revival at Harvard in the early 1970s, and other matters. Like our Facebook page, follow us @linoleum cast, visit linoleum-knife.com, we could have made it groovy.
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0:00.0 | La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La La Lenolium knife, as Dave White put it, I'm on an island and I'm not doing a show. |
0:40.7 | But I am. |
0:42.4 | This is Alonzo Durralli. |
0:43.7 | I'm film critic for The Rap and What the Flick. |
0:46.9 | And yeah, we are on the Canary Islands this week for my nephew's wedding. |
0:52.1 | And says Dave didn't want to do a show, I thought it would be a great opportunity to catch up with the person who really kind of set me on the path of what I do for a living and what I'm interested in in the world. |
1:05.0 | Joining me this week is my brother Fernando Durrale, MD, an Atlanta-based urologist, and really the person who is |
1:15.5 | to blame for my entire life. |
1:17.9 | Welcome to the show. |
1:19.3 | Thank you. |
1:20.3 | No, so here's the deal. |
1:24.3 | Fernando attended Harvard in the early 70s, 73 to 76. |
1:28.3 | And as a lot of you may or may not know, that was a real period. |
1:32.3 | That was kind of the ground zero for a lot of the revivalism of classic Hollywood stuff. |
1:38.3 | That's sort of where the Casablanca cult was born. |
1:42.3 | That's where the revitalization of the, or the rediscovery of the Marx brothers happened. |
1:46.0 | And so Fernando came back from college with all these amazing books about old MGM musicals and about Greta Garbo and about, you know, W.C. Fields and all this stuff. |
1:55.0 | And I devoured them as a kid and that's really kind of where my interest in this stuff started. |
2:00.0 | But I've never really talked to my brother about where he got interested in all this stuff. So, I guess |
2:06.7 | I mean, because you were pre-med. It's not like you were a film student. What was the landscape |
2:10.3 | like when you arrived in Cambridge and how did you get into all this sort of old movie stuff? |
2:14.8 | Well, times have changed so much since back then, but certainly on campus, they tended to offer five, |
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